254 - 11/6 - Douglas Brush, Founder @ Accel Consulting

Douglast Brush, Founder and Court Appointed Neutral of Accel Consulting is our feature interview this week, interviewed by Frank Victory. News from Xcel Energy, Guild Education, National Cybersecurity Center, Coalfire, Red Canary, Zvelo and a lot more.

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This week’s news:

• Join the Colorado = Security Slack channel

• Colorado has the four most expensive housing markets in U.S. not on a coast

• Ten Reasons Why Denver Is a “Bastion of Geekdom”

• Colorado designated as official tech hub for quantum industry

• Aurora data center to become one of Xcel Energy’s biggest customers, rivaling mines and steel mills

• Denver-area tech unicorn Guild just made a big investment in AI education

• National Cybersecurity Center Hosts Project Pisces Training And Onboarding - National Cybersecurity Center

• Maximizing the value of threat modeling

• Guardians of IoT: Strengthening the security of IoT-connected medical devices in the healthcare industry

• Validating detection for Gootloader with Atomic Red Team

• Cyber Insurance Tightens the Reins to Lower Risk

Job Openings:

• Tiktok - Converged Security Technology Security Specialist

• Maximus - VP - Business Information Security Officer

• Tanium - Senior Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer, CCS

• Advanced Energy - Manager, IT Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Western Union - Cyber Security Governance Business Manager

• US Bank - Risk Framework Professional

• Datavant - Head of Information Security Governance

• Kroll - Vice President, Policy Writer, Cyber Risk

• Modivcare - Sr. IT Governance Analyst

• Meta - Security Partner - Infrastructure

Upcoming Events:

This Week and Next:

• Let's Talk Software Security - What's Your Biggest Security Challenge? - 11/8

• ISSA Denver - November Chapter Meeting, Asset Management - 11/8

• CISO Debate Series: Will more government regulation help drive better security? - 11/9

• ISSA Denver - The New SEC Reporting Rule and the End Cybersecurity as We Know It - 11/9

• ISSA COS - November Mini Seminar - 11/11

• CSA Colorado - Security Insights With James Condon - 11/14

• ISSA COS - November Chapter Meeting - 11/14

• ISC2 Pikes Peak - November Meeting - 11/15

• ISSA Denver - Inaugural Veterans Special Interest Group meeting - 11/16

• ISACA Denver - SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure - 11/16

• ISSA COS - Mentoring Mixer and Log Wars - 11/30

• Colorado Cyber Security - Cyber First Friday - 12/1

View our events page for a full list of upcoming events

* Thanks to CJ Adams for our intro and exit! If you need any voiceover work, you can contact him here at carrrladams@gmail.com. Check out his other voice work here.

* Intro and exit song: "The Language of Blame" by The Agrarians is licensed under CC BY 2.0